I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month or so on planes to disarmament conferences and planes to non-proliferation conferences, and on one of those journeys (to Geneva, in fact!) I (re)read something that made a very deep impression on me. It was from the debate in International Affairs last year about the …
Bullsh*t Gag Order on India
by | 2008-03-17 | 20 Comments
Want to know one reason that I hate the US-India nuclear deal? The House Committee on Foreign Affairs asked 40 questions about the US-India Nuclear Deal, to which the State Department provided unclassified answers that it refuses to release to the public. Daryl Kimball and Sharon Squassoni, now joined by Fred McGoldrick and Henry Sokolski, …
Jane's on Iranian Weaponization
by | 2008-03-16 | 10 Comments
A potentially interesting development in the whole Iran thing… The next issue of Jane’s International Defence Review (available from here for subscribers) contains an article by Mark Harrington in which he says: Documents shown exclusively to Jane’s indicate that Iran is continuing its pursuit of the advanced technologies necessary to develop a nuclear weapon, regardless …
Kangzhuang & DF-31
by | 2008-03-15 | 16 Comments
I’ve read Chinese Military Power and I don’t agree that it says China increased the size of its nuclear force by 1/3. When I do the math, I get basically 110-160 warheads — about the same size as last year or a little larger depending on how many DF-21s have a nuclear role. Not that …
